Matthew Golombisky is/was an active bassist, composer, educator (IfCM, Hilldale School, SPACE), conductor (Tomorrow Music Orchestra, IfCM), improviser, curriculum developer (SPACE, Mynah Music), arranger, orchestrator, sound designer, stage manager/production (Pitchfork Music Festival, Hideout Block Party, The Swell Season, Peter, Bjørn & John), radio DJ/producer (WNUR 89.3FM), organizer/presenter (Blank Tape Series, ears&eyes Festival), ideator (Clorox), and musical theatre writer & director (Bizzo!).

Matthew has lived and been active in music, festival, and film scenes in the Bay Area CA, Chicago, New Orleans, Buenos Aires, New York state, and Asheville NC, as well as toured the USA and Europe with bands such as IfCM, NOMO, Zing!, Jhelisa, GKduo, WATIV, QMRplus, more. He also directs the community collective known as “ears&eyes”, which represents bands such as Caroline Davis Quartet, Quintopus, Silences Sumire, Maurice, Zing!, Pedway, James Davis Quintet, Tomorrow Music Orchestra, Algernon, among others and curated an annual music/arts/film festival under the same name. “ears&eyes” has most recently moved into the digital release realm here.

His undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Asheville led to a B.A. in Jazz Studies/Bass Performance with an emphasis on 20th Century Classical music & theory and graduate studies to a M.M. in Composition from the University of New Orleans after a brief stint at Northwestern University after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans in August 2005.

He has taught performance, improvisation, composition, theory, recording techniques, and music marketing to children and adults for more than 15 years in schools and colleges across the nation. He joined the IfCM Collective to travel the USA, teaching at clinics to high school and college students his methods of composing and conducting. In 2013, he teamed up with like-minded musicians/educators John Nash, Patrick Liddell and Elisabeth Johnson and founded a not-your-typical-music-school school in Oakland CA to promote experiencing/learning music as a whole art form, as something relevant and exciting, called Mynah Music.

Matthew’s discography includes over 40 recordings featuring his performance, compositions, conducting, film scores, and/or producing.